Stalin
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As a former trade union delegate, I can tell you that the greatest achievement in the last 150 years is collective bargaining..
frump. as is the habit of many preceding presidents, feels no shame in using us armed forces veterans for his campaigns
and then trashing them once in office
It is totally understandable that the billionaire lickspittle in the white house wants to get rid of this..
"The Trump administration announced last week it was terminating collective bargaining at two federal agencies, Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency, effective immediately.
With approximately 370,000 workers directly affected, the move is among the largest assaults on collective bargaining rights ever carried out. Beyond striking a blow at a trade union apparatus that nominally opposed him, Trump seeks to facilitate the purge of the federal workforce, remaking the civil service into one where loyalty to the president is a condition of employment.
The elimination of collective bargaining at the two agencies is just a start. Trump targeted more than a dozen additional cabinet-level and independent agencies in an executive order issued in March. In all, the administration aims to remove collective bargaining for around one million federal workers, or about 1 out of every 15 workers covered by a union contract currently in the United States.
Already, 158,000 workers have left the government in the first six months of Trump’s presidency, according to an analysis by the Partnership for Public Service. These job losses occurred in advance of a court order last month lifting a temporary freeze on layoffs and agency restructuring. Many agencies also have ongoing programs to coerce workers into early retirements or resignations.
The federal cuts are likely to continue well into next year. President Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2026, beginning in October, calls for another 100,000 job cuts. While the president’s budget proposal is unlikely to be implemented as-is, it gives an indication of the extent of job cuts that will be pursued.
The ability for the administration to carry out the effort was cleared by a federal appeals court, which on August 1 lifted a preliminary injunction that had frozen the administration’s efforts. This decision in the Ninth Circuit was another in a series of rulings by federal courts rubber-stamping the Trump administration’s anti-democratic attempts to reconstruct the federal government, including Supreme Court decisions last month that allowed the disbanding of the Department of Education and mass layoffs without Congressional authorization.
comrade stalin
moscow
frump. as is the habit of many preceding presidents, feels no shame in using us armed forces veterans for his campaigns
and then trashing them once in office
It is totally understandable that the billionaire lickspittle in the white house wants to get rid of this..
"The Trump administration announced last week it was terminating collective bargaining at two federal agencies, Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency, effective immediately.
With approximately 370,000 workers directly affected, the move is among the largest assaults on collective bargaining rights ever carried out. Beyond striking a blow at a trade union apparatus that nominally opposed him, Trump seeks to facilitate the purge of the federal workforce, remaking the civil service into one where loyalty to the president is a condition of employment.
The elimination of collective bargaining at the two agencies is just a start. Trump targeted more than a dozen additional cabinet-level and independent agencies in an executive order issued in March. In all, the administration aims to remove collective bargaining for around one million federal workers, or about 1 out of every 15 workers covered by a union contract currently in the United States.
Already, 158,000 workers have left the government in the first six months of Trump’s presidency, according to an analysis by the Partnership for Public Service. These job losses occurred in advance of a court order last month lifting a temporary freeze on layoffs and agency restructuring. Many agencies also have ongoing programs to coerce workers into early retirements or resignations.
The federal cuts are likely to continue well into next year. President Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2026, beginning in October, calls for another 100,000 job cuts. While the president’s budget proposal is unlikely to be implemented as-is, it gives an indication of the extent of job cuts that will be pursued.
The ability for the administration to carry out the effort was cleared by a federal appeals court, which on August 1 lifted a preliminary injunction that had frozen the administration’s efforts. This decision in the Ninth Circuit was another in a series of rulings by federal courts rubber-stamping the Trump administration’s anti-democratic attempts to reconstruct the federal government, including Supreme Court decisions last month that allowed the disbanding of the Department of Education and mass layoffs without Congressional authorization.
Trump ends collective bargaining for 370,000 federal workers
The attack on federal workers’ ability to organize marks an escalation of Trump’s attack on democratic rights and the purge of the civil service.
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comrade stalin
moscow
